From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 360: One Falls, Two Stand Up

"I, Bastion, Bedom Sovich, vice president of the Strixhaven Dragon Chess Club, senior member of the Dragon Guard Historical Society, and the greatest war mage of the future at Hengjian Academy! There is absolutely no way I will get stuck in this little quagmire!"

The elephant man's huge feet can provide them with additional support to ensure that their bodies, which are much larger than those of other races, can stand well on the ground.

But in the Imprisoned Swamp, Bastion's big feet seemed less useful, not to mention that the plate armor on his body and the greatsword on his back further slowed his progress.

"Yelling and shouting won't help you get your feet out of the swamp, and neither will bragging." The green tree spirit squatted beside a dead tree in the swamp, staring at the colorful mushrooms in front of her with interest, "I think you should know this."

The tree spirit is named Dina, a second-year student who is keen on tea drinking. The reason she was punished to stay in the detention swamp is because she used a cup of magic strong tea to summon poisonous spiders in her classmate's ears, causing the unfortunate student to be admitted to the school hospital due to urticaria.

She didn't do it for mischievous reasons, because her body structure and life philosophy are different from humans, and she didn't think that poisonous spiders crawling out of her ears after drinking tea was a serious safety hazard. After getting into trouble for sharing her favorite drink with her classmates, she appeared in the detention swamp.

"Hey! Little tree spirit!" Bastion pulled his feet out of the mud with difficulty and said in a tone he thought was majestic, "I am your assistant supervisor! I don't want to hear you say anything that is irrelevant to the mission! Do you understand? We still have a long way to go! If we don't complete the professor's task, none of us can go back tonight!"

"Okay, assistant supervisor, do you mean we can start camping?" Dina obviously didn't understand what the fort meant. She looked down at her legs, some aerial roots were coming out of the green skin. Before, Dina had been suppressing her desire to take root here. Maybe now she can have a good sleep. "I quite like this swamp... There is a lot of humus under the water. Except that the sunlight is not very good, I can't find much else to complain about."

"What? I didn't say that!" Fortress was shocked by Dina's ability to understand. He tried to keep his balance and shook off the mud on his feet. "I mean... we have to speed up! At least faster than Grayson... Otherwise, who knows what words will come out of his vicious mouth to laugh at me..."

"Oh..." Dina regretfully pulled off the aerial roots on her legs, looked at the fortress that was still struggling, then bent over and carefully picked the colorful mushrooms on the rotten wood in front of her, and gently inserted them between the green leaves above her head.

After finishing everything, Dina looked back to estimate the speed of the fortress, and then continued to pick mushrooms with peace of mind.

"Captain?" It was the other students in the Fortress team who spoke. They were standing on the ice and moving forward. This spell was provided by a Cuili student. Originally, Fortress was planning to move forward with them, but he was unwilling to take off his gorgeous plate armor with a long history. So after stepping on three big holes on the ice, he decided to trek through the mud alone.

"You... really don't have any spells that can deal with this swamp?" The bubbles on the heads of several students shook. As the fortress was moving too slowly, they even practiced the bubble head spell taught by Ivy on the ice.

"Of course... no!" Bastion stomped his feet heavily into the mud, wanting to vent his anger, but the splashing mud soon made him make a strange sound of heartache, "My armor! It's too difficult to find a wizard who can maintain weapons and armor in school... Don't let it rust..."

"I heard he's a war mage..." While Bastion was busy polishing his armor, the students on the ice began to discuss in a low voice, "The kind of mage who's good at throwing fireballs and flash dust..."

"Really? Then why don't they come to Turi?" asked a Turi student who raised his hands to maintain the frozen path. "At least our academy can make these two spells more artistic."

"Didn't you see he was carrying a giant sword? Maybe he was born for war..." said a knowledgeable student of quantitative analysis, "Thousands of years ago, the elephant people established a huge military empire, with countless warlords and nobles responsible for foreign wars... Although that country disappeared, the elephant people still established a military academy. Maybe he transferred from Langdorstra College! Wielding a giant sword and using magic at the same time, that would be so cool!"

"Cool? I thought only quantitative analysts would find math cool..." The Yinhao students expressed their stereotypes.

"Of course math is the coolest, but you can't prohibit people from having other hobbies." The quantitative analysis student perfectly fits the stereotype of a math nerd. "I think a sharp sword is pretty cool... If someone can teach me how to cast a spell and swing a sword at the same time, I'd be willing to be his apprentice for life!"

"You're... quite peculiar, a math nerd who wants to swing a sword..." Several students on the ice looked at each other, "But what Strixhaven lacks the least is weirdos."

"Hey!" The student with her hands raised suddenly stopped, "I saw the box! I saw the box! Fortress!"

"Where is it?" Fortress didn't bother to continue wiping the mud off his armor, and shouted in joy. As long as he could transport the box back to the gathering point, he could go back to school and find someone to help support the armor.

"It's very close to us!" The quantitative analysis student also found the steel crate in the mud. Fortunately, the swamp was not deep, otherwise the weight of the crate would have completely sunk. "It's right next to the half-broken tree! I guess it must have been the ruins miller who broke the tree! Maybe we can still find it!"

The route of the Fortress Team was planned in advance. They found some fresh traces on the edge of the swamp, which looked like the traces of some kind of steel giant beast. The native creatures in this swamp usually don't leave such obvious signs, only those out-of-control college golems can do that.

It was because of the malfunction of the Ruins Mill that the goods of Strijhaven were scattered over such a large area. Obviously, they did not just throw away the goods and leave, but did not know where to put them. This was also the reason why the two constructs had not returned to the campus.

"Next!" Bastion threw out the scroll bag behind him, "Quickly cast the Tamsen Float spell! I've had enough of this place!"

"Aren't we going to look for those two ruins grinders?" asked the Silver Mill student who took the scroll bag. "Professor Doom is quite capable... I'm curious about what his reward is."

"If Tamsen's levitation can support us back to the meeting point, I will stand on it and take you to find the ruins grinder." Bastion tried to stride forward, and then noticed the tree spirit that was far behind, "Little guy! Hurry up! We have to go back!"

Dina raised her head with poisonous mushrooms all over her head and asked in confusion: "But my herbal tea is not finished yet..."

"This is not Mi Hua's classroom! You are in solitary confinement now!" Fortress collapsed a little. Although his friends were also "talents" from various colleges, the freshmen of the past two years still made him feel particularly "talented".

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"Ouch!"

Bastion looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the students who were originally standing on the ice had fallen into the mud and looked much more miserable than himself.

"Can't you just summon the Tamsyn underwater?" Bastion asked, as the guys apparently broke through the ice and fell through while trying to move the box onto the force field disk.

"This spell can't move too high up or down. If we summon it underwater, it might get stuck on the slope leading out of the swamp!" The quantitative analysis student answered Bastion's doubts, then wiped the mud on his palms on his companion in disgust.

"Wait!" Bastion shook his head. "I'll summon a puppet to carry it up."

Faster than the fortress were the vines that suddenly began to grow from underwater. In a few seconds, the dark green branches lifted the steel crate and placed it squarely on the force field disc. "Don't underestimate the power of plants. A small grass can push away a huge rock. Did my magic help?" Dina dispersed the green light on her palm.

"Thank you for your help!" Bastion had already started to turn around, "Let's go back quickly!"

"Great!" Dina's bright yellow eyes sparkled with joy. "Then can you come to my tea party? Dean Lisette said I need friends."

Bastion looked at the poisonous mushrooms on Dina's head and his face changed. He had not forgotten that the tree spirit in front of him was going to use them to make herbal tea: "Of course we are friends... but forget about the tea... You know, we seniors are always busy."

"What a pity." There was not much regret on Dina's face. She turned around and stared at a bubble that was growing bigger in the muddy water, as if she was very much looking forward to the sound it would make when it burst.

"Something is coming!" Yinhao students are always very sensitive to sounds. In addition to allowing them to hear the bad words others say behind their backs, it also allows them to detect some dangers that are not easy to detect.

There was a hissing sound accompanied by the sound of water splashing and branches breaking.

"Get your spells ready!" Bastion shouted, eager to get out of the mire, but the result was the opposite of what he had hoped for. "Lift me up with your vines, little tree spirit!"

"My name is Dina, Fortress' friend." Dina's palms once again released a soft green light, and the rapidly growing vines finally helped Fortress escape from the quagmire.

"Wuhu--" Fortress stretched out its trunk and blew the battle horn, which was also a song of escape. "It's the multi-headed lizard! It's coming from the south!"

The Hydra is a very ferocious reptile with claws similar to those of a ground dragon, scales on its back similar to those of a crocodile, and a long tail with a fork at the end. The most eye-catching thing about it is the multiple long necks and lizard heads that extend from its chest.

"It's so big!" The student gasped. Thanks to the Bubble Head Charm, he didn't vomit because of the stench in the swamp. "It has nine heads! I've never seen such a multi-headed lizard! I mean in the illustrated guide!"

The nine heads of the multi-headed lizard were flashing with anger, and sticky saliva was dripping down its mottled yellow-green scales. It looked like an irrational beast.

"You stupid beast!" The first to attack was the Yinhao student, and he immediately used the Silver Sharp Words, which could be called a signature spell.

Although the multi-headed hydra has many heads, it does not mean that its IQ is high. Although it cannot understand the abuse of the silver-haired student, the magic still distracted it briefly.

Several ice blades shot out from the hands of the Cuili students, leaving several wounds on the ugly yellow-green scales of the hydra. Although the exploding ice blades looked visually great, the damage was minimal.

"Use fire spells!" Bastion, standing high up, gave his instructions. "This creature has a very strong regenerative ability, but it is afraid of fire!"

Bastion did not stop his movements. A fireball the size of a fist shot out and suddenly exploded on the surface of the multi-headed lizard. The huge shock wave splashed foul-smelling water and smashed into the surrounding swamp.

"Two heads fell off! I knew he was good at fireballs!" The quantitative analysis student was delighted. "It looks like we can get Professor Doom's reward! The multi-headed lizard is much more difficult to deal with than the Ruins Grinder!"

"Don't be distracted!" Bastion shouted, "Spread out as much as possible! Restrict its movement! As long as we can suppress its regeneration ability, we can get rid of it sooner or later!"

"I'll freeze its feet!" Student Cuili did not continue to release ice blades that had little damage effect, but instead began to freeze the water surface under the feet of the hydra.

"Its head has grown again!" The analysis student pointed at the broken end of the multi-headed lizard's neck.

Beneath the charred flesh, pink tender flesh was rapidly forming. In just a few seconds, four new heads opened their mouths and roared at the students.

"This is impossible!" Bastion cried out in shock, "The flames should be able to suppress its regeneration! Disperse quickly! It is no longer something we can deal with!"

The multi-headed lizard rushed towards the students like a heavy dump truck, shaking its eleven heads.

The first to be hit was the student Cui Li who was standing in the front. His freezing technique did not have any effect in slowing down the hydra.

When the terrifying lizard's head was gnawing at her, the beautiful student suddenly did a water ballet-like pose and leaped through the jungle of the multi-headed lizard's neck.

Many big mouths tried to stop him, but none of them succeeded.

"Ha!" the Tsuri student laughed, "I'm the genius of the gymnastics club! Don't even think about catching me!"

"Watch out for its tail!" the Yinhao student warned loudly. He had just summoned a Mo Lingyuan statue, which was a mud monster made of ink. At this moment, he could do nothing but provide support.

The multi-headed lizard's forked tail wrapped around the legs of the Tsuri student, causing the latter to let out a distorted cry of surprise.

The multi-headed lizard was obviously ready to turn this unfortunate guy into a meal, and three or four heads were stretched out to eat behind him. However, just before the Cuili student died, a strange disturbance suddenly appeared in the space around him, just like someone pressed the flush button of a toilet. Under the attraction of the vortex, the captured student suddenly disappeared from the spot and suddenly appeared on the swamp water not far away.

This is the magic of the analysis student. After expressing his feelings twice, he finally used the first spell.

Bastion, who was preparing a thunder wave, breathed a sigh of relief, turned the lightning condensed in his hand into a roar, and fired it towards the sky above the swamp.

(End of this chapter)